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New Delhi:
The Supreme Court might appoint a panel, to be headed by a retired choose, to probe Kanpur Police’s killing of Uttar Pradesh gangster Vikas Dubey and his aides final week, in addition to his bloodbath of eight cops a couple of days earlier.
Responding to PILs asking for a court-monitored CBI or NIA probe into each incidents, the courtroom gave the UP authorities until Thursday to inform the courtroom “what kind of committee” it wished.
The case might be taken up subsequent on Monday, July 20.
“We will do something (like) what we did in the Telangana case. Tell us what kind of committee you want,” the Chief Justice of India stated, referring to the encounter killing of 4 males accused of the rape and homicide of a 27-year-old girl.
Telangana Police stated the 4, who have been in custody, attempted to escape by attacked armed cops with sticks and stones earlier than snatching their weapons, leaving them with no possibility however to shoot them useless.
Shortly after the highest courtroom constituted a panel headed by retired Supreme Court choose Justice VS Sirpurkar to probe the matter. The panel has but to submit its report due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Meanwhile, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, showing for the Yogi Adityanath authorities, requested for extra time to formulate the state’s reply.
“Please give me time. We have taken cognisance of the matter (but) too many facts are in the public domain. Let me place our facts from the UP government before the court,” he stated Tuesday.
Vikas Dubey, who was the primary accused in a brutal assault that left eight cops useless and 7 others injured, was shot dead Friday as he tried to escape police custody following an automotive accident.
The police stated Dubey, who was being transported to Kanpur after his arrest in neighbouring Madhya Pradesh, tried to flee after the car he was in met with an accident.
In an announcement that had echoes of the Telangana encounter, the cops stated Dubey snatched a gun from a cop. Attempts have been made to get him to give up however he fired on the cops, forcing them to retaliate.
However, questions have emerged over the police’s version of events that led to Dubey’s loss of life. Videos and witness accounts have underlined the questions that, to date, don’t have any solutions from the police.
The UP authorities has already appointed an independent one-member commission to probe the incident; it can include a retired choose and should submit a report inside two months.
One of the PILs heard by the Supreme Court right now had been filed by Ghanshyam Upadhyay, a Mumbai-based lawyer, hours earlier than Vikas Dubey died within the encounter.
The PIL sought a court-monitored probe into the killing of 5 of the gangster’s associates. Presciently, it had additionally sought safety for Dubey, fearing that he might be killed in an encounter.
The second, filed by Anoop Prakash Awasthi, needs the highest courtroom to direct and oversee a CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) or NIA (National Investigation Agency) probe into the nexus between cops and criminals that led to the deaths of the eight cops.
Ongoing inquiries into the massacre at Bikru village close to Kanpur have instructed that a number of cops have been a part of Dubey’s “deep-rooted” network.
The officer in-charge of the Chaubeypur Police Station, which has jurisdiction over the village, was arrested final week. A sub inspector from the identical station was additionally arrested. In addition, four more cops from the station have been suspended and no less than 30 others are being investigated.
A 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court, consisting of the Chief Justice and Justices R Subhash Reddy and AS Bopanna will hear the petitions.
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